Hi there,
My boss has been bugging me for ages to set up a vpn connection so that he can log onto our corporate network from home and be able to work using the networks shared resources. I have attempted to set this up, but am having major problems and I am hoping somebody out there can help.
The network consists of four servers, named alpha, bravo, gamma and delta and using IP's 10.1.1.1 - 10.1.1.4. The delta server also runs microsoft vpn server on 10.5.1.1 with 5 available addresses 10.5.1.2 - 10.5.1.6. All four servers are global catalog servers, and all four are running DNS. Active directory is replicated between all four as all are domain servers. There is also one DFS partition shared across all four.
The Network Gateway is a Netgear adsl router, which has been programmed to forward all 1723 requests to the delta server, and is on 10.1.1.5
My laptop is configured on a dhcp address and my home router is on 10.10.1.250.
I brought the laptop into work and joined the domain, and then took it home again to try connecting. I am using the network username and password and using the connect using dialup option to dial my static IP. I can connect to the network, but there are a couple of problems.
Firstly the connection is incredibly slow, which considering both ends have 8mb ADSL is annoying. The bigger problem is that although I can ping all four servers by IP, I cannot ping them by name. Furthermore, alpha and delta give me access, but bravo and gamma show up in active directory, but don't connect their shared drives or allow me to connect to them via network neighbourhood. I suspect this may be a DNS issue, but I am stuck.....Can anybody help me, as this VPN is giving me a migraine.!
My boss has been bugging me for ages to set up a vpn connection so that he can log onto our corporate network from home and be able to work using the networks shared resources. I have attempted to set this up, but am having major problems and I am hoping somebody out there can help.
The network consists of four servers, named alpha, bravo, gamma and delta and using IP's 10.1.1.1 - 10.1.1.4. The delta server also runs microsoft vpn server on 10.5.1.1 with 5 available addresses 10.5.1.2 - 10.5.1.6. All four servers are global catalog servers, and all four are running DNS. Active directory is replicated between all four as all are domain servers. There is also one DFS partition shared across all four.
The Network Gateway is a Netgear adsl router, which has been programmed to forward all 1723 requests to the delta server, and is on 10.1.1.5
My laptop is configured on a dhcp address and my home router is on 10.10.1.250.
I brought the laptop into work and joined the domain, and then took it home again to try connecting. I am using the network username and password and using the connect using dialup option to dial my static IP. I can connect to the network, but there are a couple of problems.
Firstly the connection is incredibly slow, which considering both ends have 8mb ADSL is annoying. The bigger problem is that although I can ping all four servers by IP, I cannot ping them by name. Furthermore, alpha and delta give me access, but bravo and gamma show up in active directory, but don't connect their shared drives or allow me to connect to them via network neighbourhood. I suspect this may be a DNS issue, but I am stuck.....Can anybody help me, as this VPN is giving me a migraine.!